Slaughter Creek Wilderness is a
wilderness area
Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are Earth's natural environments that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally ...
in the US state of
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (, ) is a land management law passed in the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009. The bill designates millions of acres in the US as protected a ...
. Located near the
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
stateline in the northwestern corner of
Washington County, it protects much of the watershed for Slaughter Creek, which feeds into the perennial streams of
Beaver Dam Wash
The Beaver Dam Wash is a seasonal stream near the southwestern Utah- Nevada border in the United States. At its southern end in northern Arizona, near the point where it empties into the Virgin River, the stream flows throughout the year. Part o ...
.
Slaughter Creek Wilderness
- Public Lands Information Center
Slaughter Creek Wilderness is located near Doc's Pass Wilderness
Doc's Pass Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to Nevada in the northwestern corner of Washington County, it p ...
on the south, separated by a small road, and is bordered by Cougar Canyon Wilderness on the west.
See also
* List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting of federal land . They are managed by four agencies:
*National Park Service (NPS)
*United States Forest Service (USFS)
*United States Fish and Wildlife Service ...
* Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act of 1964 () is a federal land management statute meant to protect U.S. Wilderness Area, federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness. It was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Socie ...
References
External links
Doc's Pass Wilderness
- Wilderness.net
Map of wilderness areas in northwestern Washington County, Utah
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Wilderness areas of Utah
Protected areas of Washington County, Utah
Bureau of Land Management areas in Utah